BUZZARDS BAY, Mass -- The Buccaneers hosted Framingham State on Tuesday to close out their three-game MASCAC series with the Rams at Hendy Field. The Bucs went down 2-0 in the sixth but were able to overcome the two-run deficit and score six unanswered to win the game, 6-2, and the series, 2-1.

The Basics

Final: Buccaneers 6, Rams 2

Records: Maritime 15-12 (7-8)

               Framingham 6-18 (4-11)

On The Mound

Maritime: Sam Wooley (W, 3-1): 7 IP | 9 H | 2 R | 2 ER | 0 BB | 7 K

                Jack O'Rourke: 2 IP | 1 H | 0 R | 0 BB | 2 K

Framingham: August Hayes (L, 2-1): 0.1 IP | 3 H | 2 R | 1 ER | 0 BB | 0 K

                      Shaun Marsh: 5.2 IP | 6 H | 4 R | 1 ER | 2 BB | 3 K

Inside The Numbers

Maritime

• Jake Duffy and Jason Bouffard had two hits each in the win. Michael Logiudice, Nate Kaczynski, Aidan McCarthy, Damon White, Costa Beechin, and Eduardo Correia all had one hit.
• Duffy, McCarthy, and Beechin all drove in one run. 
• Logiudice, Kaczynski, McCarthy, White, Beechin, and Correia all scored a run in the game.

Framingham

• Christian Cox, Nicholas Kutcher, and Zachary Kern each had two-hit games. Massimo Mondi, Rosco Palmer, Jakob Lindkvist, and Colin Johnson had one hit each in the loss.
• Palmer hit a two-run home run, the only extra-base hit of the game for the Rams.
• Palmer drove in both runs in the game for Framingham.
• Cox and Palmer scored the two runs.

How It Happened

Wooley and Marsh pitched five scoreless innings each before either team could break through on the scoreboard. Then, in the top of the sixth, Palmer took Wooley deep for a two-run home run, giving the Rams a 2-0 lead. In the bottom of the sixth, the Bucs scored four runs, the first on a Beechin single to left center that scored McCarthy. Later in the inning, with two outs, the Rams made a catastrophic error, and instead of leading 2-1 after six innings, three more runs came in in the inning for Maritime. On the error, Beechin and White scored to make it a 3-2 game. Then, Duffy singled in Correia, giving the Buccaneers a 4-2 lead after six innings. 

In the bottom of the seventh, the Buccaneers added two runs to take a 6-2 lead. McCarthy singled in Logiudice to make it 5-2, and Kaczynski scored on a passed ball to make it 6-2.

O'Rourke and the Bucs defense shut down the Rams offense in the eighth and ninth to secure the 6-2 victory.

What's Next

Maritime opens a conference series with Fitchburg State on the road on Friday, April 17th, at 3 pm.